Created and Sold by Gregg Chadwick
Coast Daylight Painting
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Natural Materials
| Dimensions | Weight |
|---|---|
40H x 40W x 2D in 101.6H x 101.6W x 5.08D cm | 20.41 kg 45 lb |
My oil on linen painting "Coast Daylight" depicts what many felt was the most beloved passenger train on the West Coast. The Coast Daylight, originally named the Daylight Limited, ran on the Southern Pacific Railroad between Los Angeles and San Francisco. Known at the time as the "most beautiful passenger train in the world," it was painted in a striking red, orange, and black color scheme.
My grandfather Arthur Desch, worked as a fireman stoking coal in steam engines before he advanced to train engineer on the Jersey Central Line. Parties and family gatherings in my grandparent's home brought the rhythms of the rails home. In their Jersey basement, the sounds of railroad workers echoed in the music my aunts and cousins played in the shadows of the train lines outside. From Junior Parker, to Elvis Presley, to Bob Dylan, to Johnny Cash, to The Band, to Bruce Springsteen, to Michael McDermott, to arts writer Greil Marcus, to film writer and director Jim Jarmusch, the enduring mythos of America and its legacy has been wrapped in the blues notes of the song "Mystery Train".
Notes on Technique:
Ghosts of earlier ideas appear within my artworks and combine with other transparent moments to create a semblance of movement, of time passing. I build a combination of shadow and illumination in each painting to create a sensation of light emanating from the work. I work with oil paint and usually create at least one color in each painting from ground pigments mixed by hand with linseed oil. Linseed oil has the propensity to grow more transparent with age and visible traces of earlier painted marks gradually appear because of this tendency - called pentimenti. I embrace this eventual outcome in my work and incorporate planned and unplanned pentimenti in my process.
"Coast Daylight" is painted with the finest quality oil paints on linen. The artwork is ready to hang.
MEDIUM
Oil on Linen
DIMENSIONS
40" x 40" x 2"
INSTALL INFO
Gallery Wrapped. Ready to Hang. Not framed.
YEAR
2019
AUTHENTICATION
Signed and dated by the artist on the rear of the painting.
If requested by client, Gregg Chadwick will sign the front of the painting.
My grandfather Arthur Desch, worked as a fireman stoking coal in steam engines before he advanced to train engineer on the Jersey Central Line. Parties and family gatherings in my grandparent's home brought the rhythms of the rails home. In their Jersey basement, the sounds of railroad workers echoed in the music my aunts and cousins played in the shadows of the train lines outside. From Junior Parker, to Elvis Presley, to Bob Dylan, to Johnny Cash, to The Band, to Bruce Springsteen, to Michael McDermott, to arts writer Greil Marcus, to film writer and director Jim Jarmusch, the enduring mythos of America and its legacy has been wrapped in the blues notes of the song "Mystery Train".
Notes on Technique:
Ghosts of earlier ideas appear within my artworks and combine with other transparent moments to create a semblance of movement, of time passing. I build a combination of shadow and illumination in each painting to create a sensation of light emanating from the work. I work with oil paint and usually create at least one color in each painting from ground pigments mixed by hand with linseed oil. Linseed oil has the propensity to grow more transparent with age and visible traces of earlier painted marks gradually appear because of this tendency - called pentimenti. I embrace this eventual outcome in my work and incorporate planned and unplanned pentimenti in my process.
"Coast Daylight" is painted with the finest quality oil paints on linen. The artwork is ready to hang.
MEDIUM
Oil on Linen
DIMENSIONS
40" x 40" x 2"
INSTALL INFO
Gallery Wrapped. Ready to Hang. Not framed.
YEAR
2019
AUTHENTICATION
Signed and dated by the artist on the rear of the painting.
If requested by client, Gregg Chadwick will sign the front of the painting.
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